2007 Season

Mr. Green is a cantankerous retired dry cleaner. Ross is a hard-charging 29-year-old corporate executive. Through a twist of fate (and an unusual ruling by a judge) the young man is given community service of helping the recent widower once a week for six months.

A 2002 Drama Desk Award Winner for outstanding music and lyrics, THE LAST FIVE YEARS is an ingenious and intensely personal look at the relationship between a writer and an actress told from both points of view.

A plain young girl falls desperately in love with a dashing and debonair young man. Are his intentions honorable, or is he simply a fortune hunter? After he is sent packing once, the young man returns. Will Catherine be able to ascertain his game in time?

What do young love, ex-convicts, penguins, an octopus, 10,000 cockroaches, strange visitors remarkably like Noel Coward and Harpo Marx, and a mummy case have in common: Sheridan Whiteside!

Theo is a dour and conservative government clerk. His wife Louise is pretty and spirited (if rather dim). Their quiet existence is turned upsidedown when Louise’s bloomers drop in public.

Ibsen‘s ground-breaking domestic drama, which ushered in the era of stage realism and caused an uproar when premiered in 1879, receives a sparkling new adaptiation from Gus Kaikkonen. Nora Helmer is a lively young housewife who has been kept as a doll by her husband. Beneath her vivacious exterior, however, lurks a secret that, when exposed, sets the stage for one of the most famous and scandalous climaxes in all of drama..

Based on a true story, and inspired by interviews conducted by the playwright over several years, I AM MY OWN WIFE tells the fascinating tale of Charlotte von Mahlsdorf, a real-life German transvestite who managed to survive both the Nazi onslaught and the repressive East German Communist regime.

Second Company

In collaboration with ConVal, Conant, Milford and Mascenic High Schools as well as Franklin Pierce and Keene State Colleges, The Peterborough Players is proud to present Picnic, the Pulitzer prize winning play written by William Inge.

Join Alice, the White Rabbit, the Cheshire Cat, the Mad Hatter and all the familiar characters in a wonderful adventure through the looking glass, told with the Second Company‘s trademark inventiveness and wit. Suitable for children age 4 and up.

Through ninety years and four generations, the Bayard family celebrates Christmas with a traditional holiday dinner.